Manners and kindness, sentence 22

Questions about someone's private life, such as when they will get married, can upset them, so it is kind to change the subject.

Who acts: Questions, it · What happens: marry, upset, be, change · To what, where: Questions, mums, subject

This is a sentence of the lesson «Manners and kindness» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Questions, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 upset	nsubj
2	about	about	ADP	_	6 life	case
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 life	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 someone	case
5	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Questions	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 married	punct
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ	14 married	mark
9	as	as	ADP	_	8 such	fixed
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 married	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 married	nsubj:pass
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 married	aux
13	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 married	aux:pass
14	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Questions	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 married	punct
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 upset	aux
17	upset	upset	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 upset	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 kind	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 kind	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 kind	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 kind	cop
23	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 upset	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 change	mark
25	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 kind	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 subject	det
27	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 change	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 upset	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	marry	future · passive		Questions = question		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	upset	can	Questions about someone's private life	mums = mum		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	is	present	it		kind property	tree rules
4	change	to-infinitive		the subject		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:051-manners-and-kindness.lesson:22.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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